CHEMIST

Joseph Bienaimé Caventou

1795 - 1877

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Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf bjɛ̃nɛme kavɑ̃tu]; 30 June 1795 – 5 May 1877) was a French pharmacist. He was a professor at the École de Pharmacie (School of Pharmacy) in Paris. He collaborated with Pierre-Joseph Pelletier in a Parisian laboratory located behind an apothecary. He was a pioneer in the use of mild solvents to isolate a number of active ingredients from plants, making a study of alkaloids from vegetables. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bienaimé Caventou is the 432nd most popular chemist (up from 442nd in 2019), the 3,553rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,791st in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 432 out of 602. Before him are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Georges Urbain, Christian Gmelin, Jacques-Louis Soret, and Albert Niemann. After him are Hans Tropsch, Louis Le Chatelier, William Gregor, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, and Juan José Elhuyar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 44. Before him are Karl Ludwig Sand, Ghazi Muhammad, James Braid, Joseph Böhm, Peter Jan Beckx, and Arthur Morin. After him are Bernt Michael Holmboe, Charles Barry, Thomas Arnold, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, José Gregorio Monagas, and Adolf Bernhard Marx. Among people deceased in 1877, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 42. Before him are Johann Christian Poggendorff, Charles Wilkes, José de Alencar, Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Johann von Herbeck, and Fernán Caballero. After him are Nikolay Ogarev, Alexander Bain, Julius Rietz, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Wilhelm Hofmeister, and Johann Carl Fuhlrott.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 3,553 out of 6,770. Before him are Hélène Prévost (1900), Jean-Louis de Rambures (1930), Evgeny Paton (1870), Jean Laplanche (1924), Alexandre Falguière (1831), and Claudin de Sermisy (1490). After him are Auguste Franchomme (1808), Dany Robin (1927), Johannes de Muris (1290), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Isaac de Benserade (1613), and René Barjavel (1911).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 50. Before him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Claudine Picardet (1735), and Georges Urbain (1872). After him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Henri Braconnot (1780), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Auguste Laurent (1807), and Gaston Tissandier (1843).

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